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Need for Speed Heat – Watch the first gameplay trailer right here

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NFS Heat

For the last couple of years, Need for Speed has been trying to be the closest thing there is to a Fast ‘n Furious video game. Losing an identity that was pioneered through the glory days of Hot Pursuit, Underground and Most Wanted, Need for Speed hit a low point a few years back with the release of Payback. It was stale, the CaRPG systems deserved to die in a fire and the storyline was more rubbish than Steven Seagal’s last 23 direct to DVD movies.

This year, it looks like EA and developer Ghost Games are aiming at shaking up the formula with a return to car culture at its global warming best. The V8s are calling, the streets are illuminated in neon lights and urge to put the pedal to the metal is real. Here’s the first trailer for Need for Speed Heat:

Need for Speed Heat isn’t just another NFS game. Ghost Games wants to use this latest iteration of the franchise to create a template for all future chapters in the series that’ll feature a more polished visual engine, a serious story and most importantly, a chance to be always-offline and actually pause your game. Heat will focus on what makes Need for Speed great while ditching many of the torrid systems from Payback that arned the rankest of reviews in 2017: High speed cop car chases, solid free-roaming and an outlaw’s sense of style.

It’ll be driving into view on PC, Xbox One and PS4 later this year.

Last Updated: August 14, 2019

17 Comments

  1. Nice

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  2. Hammersteyn

    August 14, 2019 at 16:03

    Need for Speed HEAT

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  3. Jacques Van Zyl

    August 14, 2019 at 16:40

    I want this to be good, and if it it’s not… well Horizon is there comfort me.

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    • BradeLunner

      August 14, 2019 at 16:40

      Indeed, alas for me and my ps4

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    • G8crasha

      August 15, 2019 at 07:59

      Horizon does it right. They’re purely about the race, the car and the track. None of this cops and racers BS that NFS has made a staple of the franchise! Boring! Move on!!!

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      • Jacques Van Zyl

        August 15, 2019 at 08:35

        I feel like Forza Horizon could do with a bit of a shakeup to it’s street racing scene, the cops could be added there as a small bonus but I don’t feel it should be the main focus.

        I like Horizon because it lets me pick a car and enjoy that car, the race, the track or even the outback or some stormy as island. That is pure joy to me – but cops could work if they remain limited to perhaps the street races.

        NFS most wanted did the cops so well and that was fun, but after it became too much.

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    • HairyEwok

      August 15, 2019 at 08:29

      Horizon Zero Dawn is great yeah, especially when you get on that carbon metal pony and Tokyo drift the mountains… Oh wait you mean Forza Horizon.

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      • Jacques Van Zyl

        August 15, 2019 at 08:35

        carbon metal pony drifting?! Howcome nobody ever described Zero Dawn like this before, now I want to play it more than ever!

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  4. Mistake Not...

    August 14, 2019 at 15:34

    please
    please
    please be good

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    • Original Heretic

      August 14, 2019 at 16:03

      I hate to be a naysayer, but rather don’t hold your breath.

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  5. G8crasha

    August 15, 2019 at 07:57

    Looks like another piping hot load of crap!!! I could be wrong on release, but once more, cops and racers is the premise of a NFS game! No imagination from the developers it seems. Well, that’s the impression you get from the trailer!

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  6. HairyEwok

    August 15, 2019 at 08:23

    The trailer seems to have a few different NFS in it, you have Pro Street, Carbon and Rivals

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  7. CrAiGiSh

    August 15, 2019 at 08:23

    So the same game, just new cars?

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  8. Yondaime

    August 15, 2019 at 09:30

    Meh…

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  9. Viper_ZA

    August 15, 2019 at 10:14

    EA should just close down already or get bought out. Needless to say, they will probably still coin it as there are many a fool out there.

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  10. Llama In The Rift

    August 15, 2019 at 07:09

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